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Fascinating overview of the birth control movement.
Cleverly and skillfully written, thisbook reads like an entertaining detective novel.Starting with Malthus and ending with the current debate over birth control and family planning, Dr. Sripati Chandrasekhar (arguablythe world's leading demographer and initiator of India's family planning movement)takes the reader on ajourney of discovery, illuminating the difficult struggles that led to the reproductive freedom that (some) women now have.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Śrīpati (1019-1066) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician, the author of Dhikotidakarana (written in 1039), a work of twenty verses on solar and lunar eclipses; Dhruvamanasa (written in 1056), a work of 105 verses on calculating planetary longitudes, eclipses and planetary transits; Siddhantasekhara a major work on astronomy in 19 chapters; and Ganitatilaka, an incomplete arithmetical treatise in 125 verses based on a work by Shridhara. Śrīpati's father was Nagadeva (sometimes written as Namadeva) and Nagadeva's father, Sripati's paternal grandfather, was Kesava. Śrīpati was a follower of the teaching of Lalla writing on astrology, astronomy and mathematics. His mathematical work was undertaken with applications to astronomy in mind, for example a study of spheres. His work on astronomy was undertaken to provide a basis for his astrology. Śrīpati was the most prominent Indian mathematicians of the 11th century. ... Read more

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Chapters: Sima Guang, Dominic de La Calzada, Śrīpati, Lý Thường Kiệt, Zeng Gong, Wen Tong, Abe No Sadato, Munjong of Goryeo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Saint Dominic de la Calzada (or Dominic of the Causeway; Spanish: ) (May 12, 10191109) was a saint from a cottage in Burgos very close to La Rioja. Born Domingo García in Viloria de Rioja, he was the son of a peasant named Ximeno García. His mother was named Orodulce. He repeatedly tried to join the Benedictine order at Valvanera and San Millán de la Cogolla, but was turned away. He then became a hermit in the forests near Ayuela, near the present-day town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, until 1039. In 1039, he began working with Gregory IV of Ostia (Gregorio), bishop of Ostia, who had been sent to Calahorra as a papal envoy to combat a plague of locusts that afflicted Navarre and La Rioja. Gregory ordained Dominic a priest. They built together a wooden bridge over the Oja River to help pilgrims on the Way of St. James. Gregory died in 1044, and Dominic returned to Ayuela, where he began developing the area. He cleared trees, cultivated the earth, and began to build a paved causeway (in Spanish, calzada), which served as an alternate route to the traditional Roman causeway between Logroño and Burgos. Dominics causeway became the principal route between Nájera and Redecilla del Camino. To better the conditions of the pilgrims that began to use his new causeway, he replaced the wooden bridge that he had built with Gregory with one made of stone, and constructed a building that was at once hospital, well, and church, which attended to the needs of the travelers. Today, it is the Casa del Santo, which is a used as a hostel by modern day pilgrims. Alfonso VI of Castile annexed La Rioja in 1076...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14561703 ... Read more

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Title: Errata.(correction to 'Human rights in India - fifty years after independence (1947-97)' in this journal, vol. 26)(Correction Notice)
Author: Vijayashri Sripati
Publication: Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 1999
Publisher: University of Denver
Volume: 27Issue: 3Page: 541

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